Asymmetrical Conversations

Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-308-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing

Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe, focusing on relations between body, mind, and spirit in a variety of situations. The result is not always the "live and let live" medical pluralism that is described in the literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naraindas, Harish

Quack, Johannes

Sax, William S.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Entangled Epistemes

Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack & William Sax

Chapter 1. Medicines of the Imagination: Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism

Laurence J. Kirmayer

Chapter 2. Porous Dividuals? Complying to a Healing Temple (Balaji) and a Psychiatric Out-patient Department (OPD)

Johannes Quack

Chapter 3. Medical Individualism and the Dividual Person

Francis Zimmermann

Chapter 4. My Vaidya and my Gynecologist: Agency, Authority and Risk in Quest of a Child

Harish Naraindas

Chapter 5. Davaa and Duaa: Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness

Helene Basu

Chapter 6. A Healing Practice in Kerala

William Sax and Hari Bhaskar

Chapter 7. Ayurveda in Britain: The Twin Imperatives of Professionalisation and Spiritual Seeking

Maya Warrier

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Naraindas, Harish
Harish Naraindas has taught at the Universities of Delhi, Iowa, Freiburg and Heidelberg. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. He has published widely in leading journals on medical tourism and co-edited a special issue of Anthropology and Medicine (April 2011).

Quack, Johannes
Johannes Quack isprincipal investigator of the Emmy Noether-Project “The Diversity of Nonreligion” at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the “Asia & Europe” Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University, and the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal. He is author of Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India (2012), and co-editor of The Problem of Ritual Efficacy (2010).

Sax, William S.
William S. Sax has taught at Harvard, Christchurch, Paris, and Heidelberg, where he is Chair of Ethnology at the South Asia Institute. His major works include Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Central Himalayan Pilgrimage (1991), The Gods at Play: Lila in South Asia (1995), Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal (2002), God of Justice: Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas (2008), and The Problem of Ritual Efficacy (2010).

Harish Naraindas has taught at the Universities of Delhi, Iowa, Freiburg and Heidelberg. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. He has published widely in leading journals on medical tourism and co-edited a special issue of Anthropology and Medicine (April 2011).